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Planet Money‘s recent episode, “Why Are Credit Card Agreements So Long?”, brought up the vexing issue of legal contracts, and why, paradoxically, making credit card statements simpler also makes them longer. Perhaps the authors of these barely-comprehensible contracts should pick up a copy of The Lawyer’s Guide to Writing Well, a mainstay of the UC [more...]  Susan Schaller, author of A Man Without Words, recently appeared on WNYC’s Radiolab for a show about language. Fans of Radiolab will love this episode, which examines the conundrums of language in its trademark irreverent style. Schaller describes her experiences teaching Ildefonso, a 27-year-old deaf man who had lived his entire life without any comprehension [more...] |
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